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| Stickers appeared on ads paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. (photo: IMEU) |
26 September 12
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the anti-American protests erupted in the Middle East earlier this
month, Pam Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) decided
to re-up its anti-Muslim ad campaign in New York’s subway system. The ad, borrowing from an Ayn Rand quote, is meant to imply that Muslims are savages.
New York City transit authorities did not want to
display the ads but a federal court said refusing the ads would violate
AFDI’s First Amendment rights. But now that the ads are up, New Yorkers
are taking matters into their own hands, writing “RACIST” and “HATE SPEECH” over the ads in certain subway stations:
AFDI is trying to run a similar campaign in the Washington DC Metro but
authorities there have so far been successful at blocking the campaign “out of a concern for public safety.” READ MORE
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